Developer Connector Brazil: A social network for developers

Developer Connector Brazil is a social network for developers. Users can create their portofolio and add experience, education, skills, social networks, post feed, comments and other professional information.

It is built on React, Redux, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker and deployed with Heroku using Git.

The app is developed with the following functionality:

• Backend API with Node.js and Express
• Protected routes/endpoints with JWT
• Frontend APP with React.js
• App state management with Redux
• Created reducers and actions for resources
• Redux-Thunk middleware
• Simplified installation with Docker-compose
• MongoDB

Install

To run locally you must install docker-compose, visit Install Docker Compose.

# clone repository
git clone https://github.com/mateusgamba/devconnectbrazil.git

# start the application
docker-compose up -d

Access http://localhost:3000.

Deploy on Heroku:

You will need to create an account and install the heroku-cli.

After installing heroku-cli, run the following commands in terminal:

heroku login

and enter your email and password.

Create your app:

heroku create

And set the environment variables:

heroku config:set MONGO_URI=YOUR_OWN_DB_URI
heroku config:set SECRET_OR_KEY=secret

To add YOUR_OWN_DB_URI, create an account on mLab (free online mongoDB)

In the end, run the following commands to deploy the code on Heroku:

git push heroku master

To open your project execute:

heroku open

Note

This web app was created in Brad Traversy's course. I coded along the course.